Baseball legend Nagasima Shigeo (68) was hospitalized yesterday for a stroke. The man they call “Mister”, revered for his cavalier play in the golden era of the Yomiuri Giants in the 1960s and 70s, recently guided the Japanese Olympic team to qualification for this year’s games in Athens. His son, former baseball player and now a TV personality, Nagashima Kazushige said, “Now we leave everything to the doctors and wait for my father’s recovery.”